Jerry Kapowitz

Jerry Kapowitz was an American millionaire who owned a gun store and liquor store in Miami, Florida during the 2010s.

Biography
Jerry Kapowitz was born in Brooklyn, New York City to a family of Polish descent, and he served in the US Army at the time of the Vietnam War. Kapowitz returned home to New York after being discharged from the army, and he found himself homeless and penniless, as the government did not provide assistance to him and many other Vietnam veterans. Kapowitz begged for money on the streets until one day in 2008, when he found $2,000,000 worth of diamonds in a trash can in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens. Kapowitz was allowed to keep the proceeds from the diamonds' sale by the mayor, as no conflicting claims to the ownership of the diamonds could be verified. Kapowitz moved to Miami, Florida, where he purchased a mansion and opened a liquor store and a gun store.